Catching Fire : how Cooking Made us Human

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Call Number: BOCD 394.12 Wr
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	BOCD 394.12 Wr	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Compact discs.
Unabridged.
The cooking hypothesis -- Quest for raw-foodists -- The cook's body -- The energy theory of cooking -- When cooking began -- Brain foods -- How cooking frees men -- The married cook -- The cook's journey -- The well-informed cook.
Performed by Kevin Pariseau.
Primatologist Richard Wrangham argues that "cooking" created the human race. At the heart of "Catching Fire" lies the idea that the habit of eating cooked rather than raw food permitted the digestive tract to shrink and the human brain to grow, helped structure human society, and created the male-female division of labor.

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Surprising, different, and interesting point of view on the evolution of humans submitted by jcnnifer on August 15, 2019, 10:06pm This book dives into a different theory about how humans evolved - through the use of fire. It opened my mind about factors that truly transformed humans into who we are today. Great style of writing too!